“The plot was fraught with danger…” Eliezer HaKohein Isaac related this amazing account of his World War II experience to his son-in-law, Yitzchak Hershkovitz, of Petach Tikvah, Israel. I was in a concentration camp in Hungary, near the Romanian border, under the rule of the accursed Nazis. When their […]
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The Besht (Ba’al Shem Tov, 1698-1760), the founder of the Chassidic movement and a charismatic leader who lived 300 years ago, had a unique explanation of a verse from Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah 30:7), “It is a difficult time for Yaakov, and we will be saved from it!”. All the Jewish people […]
“You could hear his moans…”: Personal Story from Rabbi Shaul ...
“The danger was real and life-threatening…” For being a Jew and wanting to live like one, Reb Asher Sosonkin, a devoted Lubavitcher chassid, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. There, he and other “political” prisoners lived, cut off from the outside world, in the harshest […]